Sugar Sammy

Sugar Sammy – Laughing at Ourselves

What We Choose To Remember Sugar Sammy is back with You’re Gonna Rire 2, his new bilingual show. I was curious. The friendly greeting Bonjour-Hi makes some people angry. The CAQ government’s campaign to elimin...

We The People

What We Choose To Remember Democracy was built on the idea that ‘we the people’ can stand together to defend ourselves from tyrants and adversity. ‘We the people’ is an empowering concept, unless your people ar...

The Enemy Who Mistook Himself For A Friend

What We Choose To Remember There are days when I struggle to make sense of the world around me – and the people in it. On those days, the human race appears hell-bent on destroying everything we have built tog...
Cold Blooded Social Engineering as seen in this scene from Fritz Lang’s dystopian 1927 film Metropolis.

Cold Blooded Social Engineering

What We Choose to Remember In 1961, Stanley Milgram conducted a social psychology experimented at Yale University that could only have been justified as an attempt to understand the horrors of the Second World...
La Bataille de Saint-Léonard

Learning (Or Not) From History

What We Choose To Remember The 1960s were stormy years in Quebec. One of the most consequential battles of the era exploded in Saint-Léonard. A new film by Félix Rose makes the case that La Bataille de Saint-L...